FRENCH SHIPS AND MEN
AID TO ALLIED CAUSE
Rec. 1C.45 a.m. LONDON, October 5. About 300,000 tons of naval shipping —half of France's pre-war fleet —and 53,000 French naval officers and ratings are now fighting with the Allies, Reuters Algiers correspondent reports. Admiral Andre le Monnier, chief of staff of the French navy, revealed this at a Press conference.
He added that there was a possibility that a reconstituted French navy might take over units of the Italian navy. It was a diplomatic question, but it was clearly in the Allied interests to keep the maximum of trained French naval personnel afloat.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1943, Page 5
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